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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Isaiah 59

Chapter 59

Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

the Lord's

50:2 Genesis 18:14 Numbers 11:23 Jeremiah 32:17

that it cannot save

63:1 Hebrews 7:25

his ear

6:10 Matthew 13:15

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

your iniquities

50:1 Deuteronomy 32:19 Joshua 7:11 Proverbs 15:29 Jeremiah 5:25

hid

or, made him hide.

57:17 Deuteronomy 31:17,18 32:20 Ezekiel 39:23,24,29 Micah 3:4

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

your hands

1:15,21 Jeremiah 2:30,34 22:17 Ezekiel 7:23 9:9 22:2 35:6 Hosea 4:2 Micah 3:10-12 7:2 Matthew 27:4

your lips

Jeremiah 7:8 9:3-6 Ezekiel 13:8 Hosea 7:3,13 Micah 6:12 1 Timothy 4:2

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

calleth

16 Jeremiah 5:1,4,5 Ezekiel 22:29-31 Micah 7:2-5

trust

30:12 Job 15:31 Psalms 62:10 Jeremiah 7:4,8

and speak

3 Psalms 62:4

they conceive

13 Job 15:35 Psalms 7:13 Proverbs 4:16 Micah 2:1 James 1:15

They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

cockatrice

or, adder's.

14:29 Proverbs 23:32 *marg:

crushed breaketh out into a viper

or, sprinkled is as if there brake out a viper.

Matthew 3:7 12:34

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

webs

28:18-20 30:12-14 Job 8:14,15

neither

30:1 57:12 64:6 Romans 3:20-22 4:6-8 Revelation 3:17,18

their works

5:7 Genesis 6:11 Psalms 58:2 Jeremiah 6:7 Ezekiel 7:11,23 Amos 3:10 6:3 Micah 2:1-3,8 3:1-11 6:12 Habakkuk 1:2-4 Zephaniah 1:9 3:3,4

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

feet

Proverbs 1:16 6:17 Romans 3:15

and they

3 Jeremiah 22:17 Lamentations 4:13 Ezekiel 9:9 22:6 Matthew 23:31-37 Revelation 17:6

their thoughts

Proverbs 15:26 24:9 Mark 7:21,22 Acts 8:20-22

wasting

60:18 Romans 3:16

destruction

Heb. breaking.

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

way

Proverbs 3:17 Luke 1:79 Romans 3:17

no

14,15 5:7 Jeremiah 5:1 Hosea 4:1,2 Amos 6:1-6 Matthew 23:23

judgment

or, right.

Psalms 58:1,2

crooked

Psalms 125:5 Proverbs 2:15 28:18

whosoever

48:22 57:20,21

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

is judgment

Lamentations 5:16,17 Habakkuk 1:13

we wait

5:30 Job 30:26 Jeremiah 8:15 14:19 Amos 5:18-20 Micah 1:12 1 Thessalonians 5:3

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

grope

Deuteronomy 28:29 Job 5:14 Proverbs 4:19 Jeremiah 13:16 Lamentations 4:14 Amos 8:9 John 11:9,10 12:35,40 1 John 2:11

in desolate

Lamentations 3:6

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

roar

51:20 Psalms 32:3,4 38:8 Hosea 7:14

mourn

38:14 Job 30:28,29 Jeremiah 8:15 9:1 Ezekiel 7:16

for salvation

Psalms 85:9 119:155

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

our transgressions

1:4 Ezra 9:6 Jeremiah 3:2 5:3-9,25-29 7:8-10 Ezekiel 5:6 7:23 8:8-16 Ezekiel 16:51,52 22:2-12,24-30 23:2-49 24:6-14 Hosea 4:2 Matthew 23:32,33 1 Thessalonians 2:15,16

our sins

Jeremiah 14:7 Hosea 5:5 7:10 Romans 3:19,20

we know

Ezra 9:13 Nehemiah 9:33 Daniel 9:5-8

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

lying

32:6 48:8 57:11 Psalms 78:36 Jeremiah 3:10 42:20 Ezekiel 18:25 Hosea 6:7 7:13 Hosea 11:12 Acts 5:3,4

departing

31:6 Psalms 18:21 Jeremiah 2:13,19-21 3:20 17:13 32:40 Ezekiel 6:9 Hosea 1:2 Hebrews 3:12

speaking

Jeremiah 5:23 9:2-5 Matthew 12:34-36 Mark 7:21,22 Romans 3:10-18 James 1:15 3:6

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

4 5:23 10:1,2 Psalms 82:2-5 Ecclesiastes 3:16 Jeremiah 5:27,28,31 Amos 5:7,11 Micah 3:9-11 7:3-5 Habakkuk 1:4 Zephaniah 3:1-3

Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

truth

48:1 Psalms 5:9 12:1,2 Jeremiah 5:1,2 7:28 Hosea 4:1,2 Micah 7:2

he that

Habakkuk 1:13,14 Acts 9:1,23 Romans 8:36 Hebrews 11:36-38 1 John 3:11,12

maketh himself a prey

or, is accounted mad.

2 Kings 9:11 Jeremiah 29:26 Hosea 9:7 Mark 3:21 John 8:52 10:20 Acts 26:24 2 Corinthians 5:13

displeased him

Heb. was evil in his eyes.

Genesis 38:10 2 Samuel 11:27 2 Chronicles 21:7 *marg:

And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

he saw

50:2 64:7 Genesis 18:23-32 Psalms 106:23 Jeremiah 5:1 Ezekiel 22:30 Mark 6:6

therefore

52:10 63:3-5 Psalms 98:1

For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

he put on righteousness

11:5 51:9 Job 29:14 Romans 13:12-14 2 Corinthians 6:7 Ephesians 6:14,17 1 Thessalonians 5:8 Revelation 19:11

the garments

Deuteronomy 32:35-43 Psalms 94:1 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Hebrews 10:30

with zeal

9:7 63:15 Psalms 69:9 Zechariah 1:14 John 2:17

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

According

63:6 Job 34:11 Psalms 18:24-26 62:12 Jeremiah 17:10 50:29 Matthew 16:27 Romans 2:6 Revelation 20:12,13

deeds

Heb. recompences. fury.

1:24 49:25,26 63:3,6 66:15 Psalms 21:8,9 Lamentations 4:11 Ezekiel 5:13 6:12 Ezekiel 38:18 Nahum 1:2 Luke 19:27 21:22 Revelation 16:19 19:15

So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

shall they

11:9-16 24:14-16 49:12 66:18-20 Psalms 22:27 102:15,16 113:3 Daniel 7:27 Zephaniah 3:8,9 Malachi 1:11 Revelation 11:15

When

This all the Rabbins refer to the coming of the Messiah. If, say they, ye see a generation which endured much tribulation, then expect Him, according to what is written, "When the enemy shall come in like a flood," etc.

the enemy

Revelation 12:10,15-17 17:14,15

the Spirit

11:10 Zechariah 4:6 2 Thessalonians 2:8 Revelation 20:1-3

lift up a standard against him

or, put him to flight.

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

the Redeemer

Obadiah 1:17-21 Romans 11:26,27

unto

Deuteronomy 30:1-10 Ezekiel 18:30,31 Daniel 9:13 Acts 2:36-39 3:19,26 26:20 Titus 2:11-14 Hebrews 12:14

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

this

49:8 55:3 Jeremiah 31:31-34 32:38-41 Ezekiel 36:25-27 37:25-27 Ezekiel 39:25-29 Hebrews 8:6-13 10:16

My spirit

11:1-3 61:1-3 John 1:33 3:34 4:14 7:39 Romans 8:9 2 Corinthians 3:8,17,18

my words

51:16 John 7:16,17 8:38 17:8 1 Corinthians 15:3-58